Photos App in 8.1 loses most of its best features e.g. Facebook/Flickr support...

Barb Bowman 80,805 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
2013-06-26T19:27:25+00:00

EDIT: October 18 – This has been edited to reflect the Windows 8.1 and Windows RT 8.1 official RTM/GA release.

I've just installed the 8.1 Preview on a desktop. EDIT: 10/17/2013-this is also true for RTM. The Photos App has changed:

  1. No longer includes the ability to show images from Facebook, Flickr, SkyDrive

 <10/18/2013deleted missing networked computers issue - for information on how to include content from supported Windows computers on a home network, see http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wiki/windows8_1-pictures/add-network-folders-and-display-pictures-in-the/bf3252f8-9162-4129-8387-5367e24b5609 - note that many older versions of Windows are not supported and that there is no support for Linux based NAS devices>

  1. Does have some new editing features

 3. Live Tile functionality has disappeared.

Edit:6/30

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8_1_pr-pictures/possible-fix-for-photos-app-live-time-not-showing/e0eb3bb4-3e9c-4016-aa27-4a011ccc94a3 is what a possible solution is to missing Live Tile issues.

Edit: 7/04

Tiles are working, but images change only 1x per day. This needs to be a shorter period.

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-09-11T10:11:06+00:00

    I don't want a third party app, I want the functionality that already existed in 8.0. I rolled my Surface back to 8 because of this. If you want separate or third party apps, that's great, but you don't speak for the majority of users here.

    Sure, I recognise that. I have also posted about not getting any satisfaction. I was merely pointing out that while if you can't get what you want you might get what you need elsewhere.

    So far we have 27 pages of ditto, so I make no apology for trying to give a solution. Is this only a forum for all repeating the same thing ad nauseam? Perhaps it is, I see someone found yours reply to my post helpful, one more than I got. I wonder how it helped exactly?

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-09-11T07:21:10+00:00

    Agree. What a cluster cuss. Most of the other Metro apps have improved nicely but Photos in 8.1 is pretty much worthless to me if it can't show photos from my WHS.  What is it with Microsoft these days. They're consistently finding ways to shoot their foot off at a time when they can't afford to do so.

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-09-11T01:36:36+00:00

    I don't want a third party app, I want the functionality that already existed in 8.0. I rolled my Surface back to 8 because of this. If you want separate or third party apps, that's great, but you don't speak for the majority of users here.

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-09-08T23:29:06+00:00

    Hi all

    I feel the same way **** you all, was very quick to update to 8.1. But....

    ...Lets all take a big breath though, there may be some sense in what MS said about encouraging 3rd party apps. Id MS does a great jon in something as key as photos, then the developers may not be interested. The integration in photos was about integrating across multiple networks. Apps can do this, doesn't have top baked into the OS. It's the People hub where integration is key IMHO.

    I'm using photoweaver, and there have already been some updates. It does most of what the old Photo app did. Ther are some additions needed though:

    1. A large live tile
    2. Pinch and zoom
    3. Tidy it up a bit, for example remove the flickr/FB etc icons if you don't want to use those services.

    So, hopefully the PhotoWeaver dev is watching this site. Lets encourage him/her/them.

    Anyone found other apps they like for this functionality?

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